id: The id you were already using on [ gallery=id ]
width: Width of your image container
height: Height of your image container
timed: true/false to slideshow your images
delay: Time in miliseconds before moving to the next image
transition: Animation when moving to the next image: fade, fadeslideleft,
continuoushorizontal, continuousvertical, crossfade, fadebg
arrows: true/false to see the arrows for next/previous images
info: true/false to show the image description
carousel: true/false to see all thumbnails
text: Text relative to the Carousel
open: true/false to show the carousel opened/closed
links: true/false to click on the image and open the original image alone
margin: Distance from the gallery border to the text
align: Gallery alignment: left, right, center, float_left, float_right

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You actually make it appear really easy along with your presentation but I find this topic to be actually one thing which I think I would never understand. It seems too complex and very extensive for me. I am having a look ahead on your next submit, I’ll attempt to get the cling of it!

Hello would you mind stating which blog platform
you’re working with? I’m planning to start my own blog in the near future
but I’m having a hard time deciding between BlogEngine/Wordpress/B2evolution and Drupal. The reason I ask is because your design seems different then most blogs and I’m looking
for something unique. P.

Hei, i’m looking for the nextGen smooth Gallery plug inn but it seems to be not able to find. I know you guys out there have answer for this:) any one who can show me the link to it? Thanks in advance.

i have image slider set on the home page and i have installed the nextgen gallery all i need to that when i click one of the slider image i need to open nextgen gallerey popup image ,could it possible to have or i should do something different…please tell me

First off thanks for developing this plug-in, seems to work very well for the most part. And I am going to donate if I can get it to work like I want it to on my site.

That being said, I found one place it isn’t working well and it is something that I’d like to see if it’s possible to fix as it would make designing cleaner multi-gallery pages much easier.

http://www.imagesbytracysmith.com/cont/portfolio/
I want to have multiple galleries on the same page. Which works if I just stack them on top of each other. HOWEVER, I have a portfolio page where there are sliders/accordions which hide the galleries until you click on one and then that one appears. The smooth gallery slideshow appears, but when you try to close the carousel it doesn’t slide all the way up (moves a little), it moves a little and just screens the opacity back. Any ideas on what might be causing this? I’ve tried it with 3 or 4 different slider/accordion plugins and get the same thing (Occasionally the first one you open will function correctly but the others won’t when you open them).
-WP 3.0.4
-NextGen Gallery 1.7.3
-NextGen Smooth Gallery 1.2
-Wordpress Tabs Slides 2.0.1 (for slides, also tried HacKadelic Sliding Notes and SlideDeck for WP)
-Visual theme from Organized Themes

I think the trick is to make sure you put the shortcode into the HTML edit pane, not the Visual pane. Go to the edit window of your page or post, click on the HTML tab in the editing menu, delete anything that’s there already. Then paste in the shortcode and save. Good luck -ab

Really like this plug in. I spent a long time trying out different gallery plug ins and shadowbox methods of displaying images before settling on this.

A couple of comments for future revisions that users/friends have raised – would be great if they could be addressed in future versions.

1) Arrows are not visible enough. Level of opacity is not good and they’re not big enough on larger images.

2) Text on the overlays appears in black on a dark opaque grey so is not easily readable. Text should be white.

3) I’ve cropped all my images to the frame size (i’m using 600×600) but it would be great to enable larger images to appear resized within the set frame rather than cropped. the square frame works well with the page layout (and means you don’t have to scroll each picture like a lot of other plugins) but not all photographs are easily cropped to square.

Hi, great plugin it was working perfectly until I upgraded my Suffusion theme from 3.5.7 to 3.6.3 (the current) now I get a blank area in my post where the gallery should be. Change the theme back to the default and all is fine. I have raised this on the theme support forum, could you have a look too at the reason for the incompatibility?

I have tried to install the plug in and it works, but I can’t access the .css file through my wordpress admin page. The navigation menu that I am using is a drop down menu and with smooth gallery installed, it drops down behind the gallery, not on top of the gallery frame. I need to change the z index value, but when I tried doing it manually and then uploading the change, I get a message saying that “Sorry, NextGEN Smooth Gallery works only in Combination with NextGEN Gallery” even though both are installed and activated.

Hey. This ‘the’ best plugin ever. I love it’s flexibility and so easy to use it given it’s integration with nextgen galleries. I’ve adjusted it to suit my needs at http://www.markflower.com

However has anybody managed to be able to pull an image set from flickr or picasa into a smooth gallery? I’ve looked everywhere and given that I think it is a limitation of nextgen gallery it may not be possible. Just hoping the may be a way as it will probably speed up the loading of my images if the full size images where pulling off another server as my host is a bit slow.

> I am totally confused and a very unskilled amateur in the ways of
> WordPress, PHP, CSS and HTML.
>
> My pictures are in a nextGen gallery.
>
> I have
> [smooth=id:4; width:640; info:true; carousel:true; useReMooz:true]
> although I only added useReMooz, because I thought it may solve my
> problem.
>
> All I want is for my pictures to be resized and not centre cropped. My
> originals are 1280 x 960 and I would like to view them at 640 x 480 or 480
> x 640 resized, depending on orientation.
>
> Is this possible ?
>
> Richard

I’m using Smoothgallery addon for NextGen, and my images get cropped within the 400×300 slideshow size I set. Is there a way I could have them in full size, keeping height/width ratio, just adding black borders where need?

Sorry if I’ve missed the obvious, but I’m stuck.

It looks as if the Smooth Gallery player would mask the picture displayed in it’s actual (default thumb ?) size, so it appears as cropped.

I would like the picture resized, with aspect ration kept. How can I do that?

I have some trouble to make NG smooth works on WP 2.9.2. My NG gallery works without any problem, but when I try to replace “gallery” by “smooth” no more gallery is displayed. I have tried [smooth=x] [smooth=id:x;] [smooth=id:x] etc. but nothing works. Also change many options, like activated Iframe as suggested by inkadu but without success…
Any idea would be welcomed!

I just installed the plugin on a client site and it does indeed work well. Much better than re-loading the page every time. I found one tiny bug though. Sorry if this has already been mentioned.

I used the PHP code in a page template (PodsCMS template actually). The “Pictures” tab/link was showing in the example on the options page, but not in my actual page. I finally figured out that it was in the CSS. In jd.gallery.css and the “.jdGallery a.carouselBtn” class, “bottom” was set to “0;”. I changed it to “-20px;” (the height of the link) and it is now visible.

It is brilliant. However, I was wondering if there is a way to integrate or call a picasa or flickr gallery into it instead of only the nextgen galleries, or be able to create a nextgen gallery from a picasa or flickr image set located externally. I’ve had a pretty good look online using google but havent found anything that will allow me to still use your plugin…

Smooth Gallery and Nextgen compliment each other so well, the gallery management is awesome, I would just like to have the option of pulling the images from perhaps a faster server offsite like flickr and picasa albums.

HI,
Would love to try the Smooth Gallery, but I am wondering if it is still supported by the developer and how compatible it is with the current (and coming) version of WordPress. According to the plugin site, there have been no updates in over 500 days, so it seems risky.

Is there a way of showing a gallery not by id but by tags? I’d love to have a showcase with photos from my galleries tagged “selected” 🙂
There must be a way to do this as NextGen can show photos at the bottom of an article which are related to the tags of the article.

I have a really strange problem. I can see that the gallery gets created correctly at the bottom of the Smooth Gallery options page. I then save the options and put the text [smooth=id:1;] on my gallery page to show gallery 1 (which I have checked appears OK in NEXTGen gallery). But when I look at the page a blank space is shown the size of what the gallery would have been but no gallery. Any ideas what could be going wrong? regards, Scott

In case you release next version, please add support for usage of special characters like single quotes (‘) etc in file names. Currently files with such names don’t show up in carousel thumbnail and they load forever in the main window!

I love Smooth Gallery and use it a lot.
I have a problem, though, and apparently I’m not alone. The shortcode
[smooth=1]
works fine in a post or page.
BUT: I’m trying to add it outside the post, in a custom page template (frankly to hide it from a client who can’t deal with shortcode) so I do:
php echo do_shortcode(‘[smooth=1]’);
(obviously wrapped in the usual php tag stuff)
And it doesn’t work.
It does work if I do:
php echo do_shortcode(‘[nggallery=1]’);
So it appears to be a glitch in Smooth Gallery.
I found one thing that says it has to do with some of the PHP tags being incomplete but they all look fine to me; maybe that referred to an earlier version?
Any help much appreciated. Thanks,
Jim

I just instaled Smooth Gallery and it works fine. I just need to know if there’s an easy way to move the carousel to another location in the frame. Where it is now it cuts off too many heads. It’d like to relocate it to the bottom or the side of the frame. Is this possible? Thanks.

This was what i was looking for it took me 15 min to get it up and running and another 15 to post the output in header – Tips make a page enable galary publish open it in any browser and do a view source you will get what you need to call the gallary hard coded in the headder

How to style the info pane below the pictures? I would want to position the captions in center, with a bit bigger type and with more padding from the top?
Otherwise great plug-in, thanks for making it!!!

I’m so sad…I had this running perfectly on WP 2.7…installed it on another WP site running 2.9 and it no longer works, just shows “loading,” see here: http://www.candacenicolecreative.com/photo/portraits Please upgrade the plugin…I will pay for it, it’s the best one out there!!!

How can I get each image in my slideshow to link to a url instead of an expanded version of the image? I would like to assign an active url to each image in the slideshow. Please help as this is urgent!

I’m hoping somebody can point me in the right direction here. I’m running Featured Content Gallery on the homepage of a site I’m building and would like to use NextGEN Smooth Gallery to show photographs on certain pages throughout the site.

The problem I’m running into is that when both plugins load their respective JS on the same page they stop working.

My plan is to just use the FCG on the homepage and have NGSG running everywhere else. Could somebody point out a way I could tell it to NOT load it’s JS on the homepage?

plugin is causing NULL URL redirect errors and is unusable. If you click back in the browser or hover over a link, the proper address shows, but if you click on the link, it sends you to a NULL page. I noticed this problem when used with Simple-Forum, but it was not limited to it.

Hi all. I think without any doubt this is the best way to play NextGen galleries.
My personal hope is to see carousel in a separated “frame” on the top or at the bottom of the gallery. I mean I would find very useful to let users scroll thumbnails more selectively and dealing with them in a separated part instead inside the gallery. Indeed, it will be so useful to let use users the arrows of their keyboard to surf forward and back in the slideshow.

The gallery is working great but there is a huge space before it. I have seen about 10 different reasons for this but non seem to be the issue. Does anyone know what could fix this? http://www.riseupfineart.com/?page_id=69

Switching to mootools 1.23 with the new “Framework compatibility mode” feature fixed the issues with Thematic, although it required to to modify the jd scripts (and generated php script) to use document.id() instead of $().

Hi, can you tell me if the smooth gallery works with custom permalinks. It seems to only work on my site with default permalinks. I would like to use /%category%/%postname%/ for search engine reasons, but when I try this it doesn’t work. Also When I have an album with a number of galleries in it they display as ordinary galleries and not smooth. How do I tell the album to display the galleries as smooth ones.

Any chance of new version of your wonderful plugin that will work with a thematic theme? Thematic calls jQuery.noConflict() (see: http://docs.jquery.com/Core/jQuery.noConflict), which in turn causes use of $ to break, which breaks the JS produced on line 117 of nggSmoothSharedFunctions.php.

I changed line 117 to use the “jQuery” method instead of $:
var myGallery = new gallery(jQuery(“#myGallery_’.$galleryID.'”)[0], { ‘;

but then there is an error in the JD script on line 93 (because the jQuery method doesn’t extend the dom element to have the .addClass method). I’m sure there is a way to resolve this, but I’m not very familiar with jQuery.

… For now I have disabled the thematic dropdowns on my wordpress site. Thanks again for a fantastic plugin!

It looks like several people commented about not seeing the entire picture in the 400×400 viewing area (only the center of it). See comments 10, 30-33 & 168 in particular. I set the thumbnail and the image size to 400×400 in NextGEN but that didn’t help. Can someone tell me what I need to do to display the entire picture in that spot?

after upgrade to the last version of the wordpress 2.8.5, smooth gallery stopped working, it only shows the thumbnail in the first post, and no gallery at all in the rest of them, any advice would be great

I am trying to build a website for my sculptor, wife. Using WordPress her url is louisesoleckiweir.com.

I am trying to put a slideshow gallery on a page called “Bronze birds gallery” using the latest Nextgen smoothgallery.
I have photos uploaded to the gallery, http://alexrabe.de/wordpress-plugins/nextgen-gallery/ and I can preview the gallery but I cannot get the gallery to show up on the page.

I put it in the body of the post (using the wordpress dashboard edit pages function) but if you look at the page http://louisesoleckiweir.com/bronze-birds-gallery you will see that all I see is this script instead of the Gallery (with the id 130).

On my wordpress site I use the small-pommo-integration plugin (with jQuery) as well as the Nextgen Smooth Gallery plugin (with mootools). The gallery stuff works well but the pommo plugin doesn’t. With a lot of hacking with the writer of that plugin, we’ve found out the # attribute is not accessiblem anymore – normally accessed with getElementById.

From JonDesign forum, it seems this can be easily solved by using the namespaced version of his plugin. Is it an idea to include that one instead of the general one?

Loving the plugin, but there’s one little thing I’d like to do with it which it doesn’t seem to do right out of the box.

The links option currently links to the bigger version of the image, what if I wanted it to link to specific page instead of the image? Perhaps defined in the image description or title within NextGen gallery management? Is this possible?

Hello,
I really like the plugin combination Gallery with your Gallery Smooth and I would like to use it on my new WordPress site.
Still, I have one problem and one question:
– Question: pictures are cropped by Smooth. This is unacceptable for us, photographers. Is this to be solved by you or by me or by third party?
– Problem: I am in a habit of paying for this kind of product. Is there a button to make a donation?
Thanks and kind regards,
Willem Defijn

Hi for some reason I can not start smooth gallery as an error apears :

WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘ORDER BY gid ASC’ at line 1 for query SELECT * FROM ORDER BY gid ASC made by do_action, call_user_func_array, smooth_gallery->general_page, smooth_gallery->example_show

HiHo evrybody,
very nice plugin this is! really.
Does anyone by chance knows how to call the Smooth-Gallery by using a widget?
I tried to use the text-widget by putting [smooth…] in it.
But it just brought that code to the front-end.

Another idea i have is to use exec-php-plugin and use the “if function exists” to call the gallery.
But i dont know the php-code for that.
Has anyone an idea how i can solve that problem?
redards & thanx for your time
axel

I have found the solution. The iFrame that gets created needs to include the headers for shadowbox (or lytebox or whatever you want to use). So if you change the nggSmoothFrame.php and add

to the header bit, then it will work (after doing the instructions i showed above).

However, now the shadowbox is relative to the iframe and thus really small. I’m looking at how to fix the shadowbox so that it knows it was launched from within an iframe and thus needs to take the iframe’s parent as a reference point (if that’s even possible!)

But that does not seem to work. I was wondering if it had to do with the fact that you added the ability for the picture to be launched in a separate window (target=blank) so I removed that. But still no luck. In that case the full image gets loaded in the little iFrame.

Given the above instructions, could you help me out in working out what other thing needs to change to get this to work? I’ve got all the URL’s working fine, but I just can’t seem to work out where the JD gallery actually opens the image. I’m assuming this is done by the linkSelector that gets tied (?) to the open class of the anchor, but that’s about as far as I got…

WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘ORDER BY gid ASC’ at line 1 for query SELECT * FROM ORDER BY gid ASC made by do_action, call_user_func_array, smooth_gallery->general_page, smooth_gallery->example_show

i put with ftp, in wp-content/plugins, the folder i downloaded from you. i still get the warning
Sorry, NextGEN Smooth Gallery works only in Combination with NextGEN Gallery. could you tell me why this is happening? I got the smooth folder off of this website, so i beleive its the most updated version.

Hi, i try smooth gallery. Nice! Just have a problem with IF. With FF ist working good, but if i use IE then the thumbnail in the carousel are too transparent. It would be great to ajust this level in them admin panel.
Is there a way to fix this right now temporary?

I made a special version of Smooth Gallery which puts the Carousel outside the picture on the right. It plays automaticly as an slideshow and the thumbs scrolll automaticly syncing the pictures that is playing.

I want to add this as an option in this plugin.

Is there anyone who can help me out? This would be a great option for this plugin!

this version of Nextgen Smooth Gallery seems to only work the previous version of nextgen gallery (0.99 + ). The recent 1.+ version of next generation gallery for wp2.7.. seems to be problematic.

the safest bet would be not to use the automatic upgrade in wp2.7 to do your nextgen gallery upgrade..or do a backup of your existing plugin directory first before you click on that “upgrade automatically” link.. in wp2.7.

Hi,
Nice plugin… however seems broken with latest WP (2.7-beta 3) and nextgen 1.0 (beta); While activating the plugin I get this error always:
“Sorry, NextGEN Smooth Gallery works only in Combination with NextGEN Gallery”
even though I’ve Nextgen installed!

I love this plugin and I been trying for days to try to make it work the way I wanted.

How do I make the infopane for each image in the gallery to point to another URL that I specify?

For example righ now, when the infopanes reads from the description field of the image, it will display what’s is the contents in the discription field.

What I have been doing is to put a URL in the discription field of the image in the gallery (something like http://www.google.com) and hopeing that it will hyperlink to the website when I click on the link in the infopane.. but there is no joy yet.

Do I have to use custom fields in this case? or this is sometihng that is already built in and I just have not found it?
I have searched alot of websites.. alot of folks are asking for this feature but very little documentation is available on how to make this happen.

I know there is an embed link option in ngsg which will lead the user to open up the image in the current window (if I remember correctly) or a new window but there is no option for me to specify alternative url if I do not want it to do the default.

If you do not have this function yet in ngsg , can you code it in the next release? If this plugin has this function.. then boy oh boy.. this plugin would really become the 2nd to none plug in wordpress! Yeah.. 2nd to none!!!

I am looking at using this with a new site I am developing. Looks cool. However, I havn’t been able to get it to work. I have a fresh install of WP, NextGen installed, but get an error when I try to install this one:

Hello,
Everything works fine on all browsers except on ie7 –> loading bar stays, carousel works up and down with thumbnails just fine, but no images shows up. Weird.
Fixed a bug in jd.gallery.js (line 520 –> type warning in ie7) but it didn’t solve my problem.
Thank you for the help and this nice plugin.
CU@+n

I figured out how to hard-code a Smooth-Gallery NextGen WordPress Gallery into a Template. It’s sort of a process and more difficult than the usual PHP call that most plugin-writers include, but not a huge deal.

Go to my site and contact me via the contact form if you are interested – http://williamcurtisdonovan.com – I’d leave my e-mail but i don’t really feel like being spammed all to hell this week.

I have an issue with your beautiful plugin.
It seems like i’ve done everything correctly, but the carousel feature doesn’t work. In the plugin settings gallery preview works fine though.
But on the page i see just a photo with a carousel navigation with “Loading…” on it and when I’m pointing my mouse to the sides of the carousel nothing happens. Tried on Firefox 3, latest build of Opera, and now on IE(Vista 64bit version) – in IE i don’t see nothing at all, just a black square instead of gallery)
Maybe there is some sort of solution or suggestion? Thank you!

Just wondering if you would know how to change it so when I have a NextGen album (thumbnails) that when you click on this, the smooth gallery opens in a new page instead of the standard NextGen gallery?

Upon further research, it seems this has to do with the defaultTransition setting within JonDesign’s SmoothGallery. The following post recommends changing the transition mode to “crossfade” rather than “fade”.

I have been working on customizing the css for smoothgallery so that it matches the dark gray background of my site and also so that the image captions do not overlap the image area. I’ve got nearly everything to where I want it, BUT am having the same issue that Leigh Ann and Brian described above — namely, there is a 100% black background to smooth gallery that i haven’t been able to get rid of despite having looked through and adjusted both css/jd.gallery.css and scripts/jd.gallery.js. Stormizer mentioned that the place to do this was in jd.gallery.js, but I do not see any parameters there to adjust this. What i end up with is a thin black border around the image area – unfortunately, it really interferes with the design. Can anybody help? I have looked through all the other plugin files to try to find a reference to a #000 background but no luck. Would greatly greatly appreciate any tips!!!! THANKS AGAIN for this fabulous plugin 🙂

Fantastic extension for NextGen !!!!! Just what I was looking for. This is a huge help. Thank you so much!
FYI, re: George’s comment above, I have tested Smooth in both 2.6 and 2.6.1 and on my end it works fine in both Firefox/Mac and Safari/Mac — only, however, if i have the iFrames option checked.
Please keep updating this plugin! It is very appreciated!

Another update: the plugin also uses the syntax ‘<?=’ which is a shortcut for ‘<?php echo’ — some hosts have the PHP short code syntax disabled (as it should be), so you’ll need to replace all the shortcuts with their appropriate expansions. Or perhaps Bruno can simply upload a new version that uses standard syntax 🙂

And it even works well on my localhost installation. But when I try to install it online (after installing NextGen Gallery) it says “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in D:webthe_path_to_wpwp-contentpluginsnextgen-smooth-gallerynggSmooth.php on line 521”. Interestingly that’s the last line containing ?>

I’m using WordPress 2.6, NextGen Gallery 0.98 and NGSmooth 1.1. I think the PHP version is 4.xx, but I’m not sure.

The only other plugins activated are NextGen Gallery and Lighter Menus. The WP-installation is fresh and clean.

I noticed that in the original smooth gallery the titles in the info box are individualized to the photo, however in your plugin it shows the Gallery name instead of the Photo title. Any suggestions as to how to change that?

I downloaded your plug-in and it works great on posts/pages using the [smooth=id:2;] shortcode. However, my homepage file is in php (home.php) and the shortcode doesnt seem to work there. My home page is located at itd.relc.org.sg/wordpress

What is the correct format if I wish to add into a php file so that I will see the gallery in my homepage? Forgive, I am a totally newbie on coding.

the other thing i wanted to mention (don’t know that it would have an effect but …) is that i’m working on a mac (10.4.11) & firefox 3.0 … AND i am sure that when i first updated the plugin (once using auto-update, and once deleting the old version and installing the updated plug-in manually) the carousel did slide UP and the description display for the first few tweaks to the plugin admin panel settings. however once it stopped sliding up / description displaying, even deleting the gallery and the plugin and reinstalling did not resolve issue/s.

think the plug-in is fabulous however the safari (mac & pc versions) issue of the thumbnail carousel not sliding up and out-of-sight when the label tab is clicked (instead dropping down about 10px) remains. in addition, again only in safari, the info / description is not visible when activated in the nextgen smooth admin.

would really appreciate any help you can offer.

thanks.

— joyce

ps. again this is wordpress 2.5.1, no other plugins activated, have tried several themes, two different installations and two different servers with the same result.

Hey all, For those having pic not showing in firefox. when you insert code to call the gallery, be sure to insert the code when using the html tab or it will insert tags and that will not show your pics properly. Just a heads up as that was my problem.

Hi, can anyone help me, and let me know what i need to change in order to get my images to show at the right height. If you look efrain I beleve this is the same problem you had so mabey you could let me know how you fixed this.

This plugin is excellent as I am a FIRM believer that NextGen is the best gallery plugin around. I just have one quick question… instead of the embedLinks going to the image, is there a way to force it to a url (either within the current blog or not)?? I am able to do this if I embed smoothgallery into my template pages (as seen on http://www.jimmievanzantmusic.net/), but I would like to make it a bit easier for my clients to add an image and link it to a webpage.

Your time and work is definitely appreciated — its people like you that make everything possible with wordpress!

hi … fabulous plug-in but i am having an issue the carousel behavior in safari 3.1.1 (macintosh). clicking on the pictures tab or the thumbnails caused the carousel to fade slightly and drop down rather than to disappear but for the pictures tab. only an issue in safari (behavior the same using other themes and without any tweaking although i’ve seen other uses of the plug-in where behavior in safari is as expected). any help would be very much appreciated!

Hi all,
The tags or code to change colors is at jd.gallery.css (.SmoothGalleryscritps)
I managed to change the background color from black to white and the text to grey (basically, I tried to inverse the dark so it matched the white background of the site i was working on. There is a tag to play with the opacity of the “carrousel” too in there. Sweet.

Anyway, if anyone has found out the easy way to make the image open in lightbox (or sort of) please share. I am not any good in this scripting (that change color was a rather by accident or brute force), so any “simple” recomendation will be appreciated. Basically the plugin (when clicked) will open the full-picture in a new window, what i had in mind is for it to open in a lightbox sort of interface.

“Bjorn: I’m pretty sure that’s because I forgot to mention that you cannot use Smooth Gallery along Prototype or Jquery (JavaScript Frameworks). So if any of your WP plugins use them, then you got a blank frame.”

And is there a way to get it work, without disabling any other plugin ?

I’ve been running NextGen Gallery 0.95 fine for a few weeks and just found your plugin. However when I activate the NextGen Smooth Gallery plugin running WordPress 2.5.1, it says “Sorry, NextGEN Smooth Gallery works only in Combination with NextGEN Gallery”. Any ideas what the error indicates? Does it only work with version 0.90 of NextGen Gallery?

Hi, I’m trying to use NextGen smooth gallery here: http://sur-taal.org/media/ (scroll to the bottom) but it doesn’t seem to work. I just get a blank box. Looking at the source code, it seems like some HTML/JS is being generated, so I’m not sure if it is a problem with the generated code, or some conflicting script.

One question, Similar to Leigh Ann, I’m looking to change the background color for pictures that are narrower than the window (IE Portraits) I’ve got whitespace two the left and right. I’ve been goofing with any and every config file in the packages, but can’t find the magic variable to change the white to black…

I tried to post this a couple of days ago but it was removed:
I was wondering where the Infopane information goes since it doesn’t show up in Nextgen Smoothgallery plugin like it does in the straight Smoothgallery plugin?
See thetwo examples here: http://www.fullscalearchitecture.com/wordpress/?page_id=9

can we set the images to link to an external webpage and not to the pic file. I want to do a slide show of different houses and when people click on it i want it to take them to a page with the description of the house. will this work?

Hi dinakar,
what about resizing the large pictures to 400×400 pixels with some image manipulation program; I’m using the GIMP for this. Although I don’t know whether NextGen generates thumbnails for your pictures, I think that you’ll get good results by resizing them yourself.

Hi ,
I have added the plugin NexGen gallery and then added the add on Smooth Gallery for it. I have created the gallery by specying [smooth=7, 400, 400, false, true, false, true]in my post. Am able to get the pictures on my post. But there is one problem. Instead of getting the full image in that 400×400 frame, am getting only some part of the entire image.(as my images are 1600*1200). But i want the entire image to be shown in that 400*400 frame. How can i get this done

Hello great plugin its working great for me on Mozilla. But when I use IE7 or IE6 I get this message saying [stack overflow at line:1] Any Idea what that means and how can get rid of that. Any help would be appreciated Thank you.

This is fantastic. I only have one issue I’m trying to figure out. I’d like the background/box to be a certain color to be seamless into my page background. How do I change the background color of the smooth gallery? I am able to change it within NextGen gallery and that works when only using NextGen, but when I use Smooth NextGen gallery is still has the black background.

My issue is that I’m using both vertical and horizontal images and find that sizing the whole gallery to accommodate both leaves extra blank space in the gallery, which shows as the gallery background color. When I change the gallery background color to match the page background color, this is not noticeable at all and it looks very nice. but I’m not sure how to do that within the Smooth Nextgen Gallery.

Hi excellent extension of NextGen 🙂
I cannot get it to work in Firefox 2
I get the thumbnails along the top ok and they move ok but no picture in the middle.
The NextGen slideshow works fine, just not the smooth gallery.
It works in IE7.0 ok as well – just not in Firefox
Any idea what could be the problem?

Bjorn: I’m pretty sure that’s because I forgot to mention that you cannot use Smooth Gallery along Prototype or Jquery (JavaScript Frameworks). So if any of your WP plugins use them, then you got a blank frame.

Ralf: My plugin just shows the images, my thumbnails were created using NextGen, so I think it’s just a case of fine tunning the settings in the admin area.

Well, in the next days I’m going to upgrade the plugin to add the suggestion of our friend Grant and to allow the use of Smooth Gallery with the WordPress 2.5 built-in galleries.

Very nice, like to integrate it. But there is something i really dislike: look at number 6/16 of your example, vertical pictures are cut. the face, which is the important part of this picture, is gone, so the preview look strange to me. this is a common problem of most gallerys or addons, maybe this colud be more dynamically fit the form of the picture,…, guess this an idea for the long term 😉 ralf